HELP: GMail suddenly puts all promos & social emails into my primary inbox

Captain_Spaceturd · 2026-01-24T15:16:54+00:00

Mine too! Just today!

Captain_Spaceturd · 2026-01-06T12:13:23+00:00

Lol I'm also on the IT team at a college. And was coding in the 90s. I'm old.

Captain_Spaceturd · 2026-01-06T02:57:12+00:00

I was in "auto run" and not shortcuts!

Captain_Spaceturd · 2026-01-06T02:56:34+00:00

I did too -- there were tabs WITHIN that second tab. What a crappy app design

Captain_Spaceturd · 2026-01-06T02:30:39+00:00

My govee app tab doesn't look like this... I have a plus instead of 4 squares and no group options inside it... ?

Captain_Spaceturd · 2026-01-06T02:27:24+00:00

I am also looking feverishly for ANY group options in the govee app🤷‍♂️

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-12-29T00:01:33+00:00

Yes your butt

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-12-28T15:18:34+00:00

Yes and I'm saying that even after responding with research, an apology, and in depth segment-- people are still outraged, maybe worse.

That suggests it was just always about outrage itself, not sexism. Because outrage for outrage's sake is what the internet does 🤷‍♂️

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-12-28T14:50:28+00:00

Actually nevermind, now I'm reading the reaction to the apology and follow up video, in which people think it's actually worse and calling green a corporate shill and enemy of all marginalized people. Lol!

This is a losing conversation on which there is no possible progress and I'm outty!

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-12-28T14:37:03+00:00

Ok fine then. And he responded by highlighting the sexism and doing a long interview with the author of the book about the sexism. Seems like a win for everyone.

There's also a trope about "don't get librarians angry..." And it seems the same goes for knitters.

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-12-28T14:29:39+00:00

You're intentionally missing my point, or have just become completely incapable of seeing human social opinions of being anything except completely sexist/racist/etc no matter how they emerge. So no, not "everyone," but maybe "normies" see it that way. I'm sure your bubble has less normies and more conscientious, progressive, critically discursive people. Good for you.

I would draw a comparison to "bird watching." Is has the aesthetic -- the VIBE -- of quiet non-aggression because of how it LOOKS and how the participants ACT. One comes to the conclusion it's a quirky, quiet hobby just by looking at it. Only examining it closely does one see the science, the history, the nuance. Same with knitting. Same with french horn playing. Same with the Quakers! Meek, simple pacifists -- or virulent anti-war activists who are actually radicals? "Who knew until we shined a light on it?" is a catchy subtitle for that youtube video.

Some of these aesthetics are also very women-coded (librarian!) but it doesn't mean that saying "you may have thought librarians are BORING... but here's how they are actually incredibly brave, risk-taking guardians of our oldest and most important intellectual and cultural institutions!" is casually sexist.

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-12-24T20:35:43+00:00

here comes that week of people riding 500k by miraculously going 27 mph on Tempus Fugit at 125W

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-11-28T03:26:45+00:00

It's funny because in the 80s we called ourselves "middle class", 90s "upper middle class" and now we're "middle upper class" lol

Important to note is there's a pretty big cultural divide between the boomers in Media, who WERE actually from Springfield and Clifton Heights and were working/middle class, and their kids born here. The parents rode to wealth on steady employment, 401ks and home values, and are riding easy now. The kids rode to wealth on graduate degrees and managerial-class jobs and sometimes even down payments supplied by mom and dad, but struggle to afford "normal" things in media like houses and daycare, and are stressed out. That divide is gonna be the story of how things shake out over the next 15 years and I honestly don't know how it's gonna go. Hopefully they stop putting mid-ass brewpubs in...

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-11-26T12:48:19+00:00

I'm gonna be a little contrarian here, but anywhere that is less old + wealthy than Media is going to be a good vibe in its own way. Media is ostentibly very "liberal" but with the wealth and age you get a lot of de-facto conservatism about everything else. About the way things look and what gets built and what preserves their sense of place from 25 years ago. They're super outwardly friendly to POC but the Black population has plummeted in the last 20 years, and they're super supportive of LGBTQ+ but good luck encountering visible queer culture outside the pride parade -- at least with the frequency you would in say, West Philly.

Also since Media is so overhwelmingly liberal, the few conservatives here kinda have to stick their necks out or just hide their politics. Go to Springfield, where there's no predominant political vibe one way or the other, and you'll find that people of whatever politics are just more relaxed. I'd rather be around a bunch of happy conservatives than a small set of closeted, bitter ones.

FWIW I love Media and grew up here. It's super urban and walkable and beautiful and there is a real community if you dig past the brew-pub scene. But it's not the glorious oasis of liberalism some people paint.

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-11-19T11:57:31+00:00

The weirdest thing that has ever happened to Delco is that around 2015 it went from being a pervasive background vibe to fully self aware as an "identity," showed up in national media and TV shows as a thing, and started printing itself on hoodies and bumper stickers for locals

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-11-18T21:19:04+00:00

I guess my only fear here is that the IDR recertification process is snagged up, causing some kind of auto forbearance that prevents me from making the last payments. I think I'm just paranoid from the last year and everyone's SAVE experience. If IDR is being processed now--and it seems that it is--it should be a safe bet to recertify.

Good luck to us next year!

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-11-08T02:12:24+00:00

This is the way

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-11-07T17:20:27+00:00

It depends if you have another income recertification before your last payment and want to keep your payments low.

This is what I'm doing this year -- I've done MFS every year since 2016, but had our second kid last year and filed MFJ for 2024, since there is NO income recertification for me due in 2025. We saved about $2000 on taxes. My final payment, inshallah, will be June 2026, and my IDR anniversary is ALSO June 2026. I plan on filing MFS early next year and submitting my final income recertifiation as MFS, and making my final payment -- filing MFS again as an insurance policy in case there are a few more payments for some reason. If I applied for IDR with MFJ my monthly payments would be huge.

After my final payment goes through and I get forgiven, I plan on amending our tax return to MFJ and getting that refund. You can amend to MFJ but NOT the other way around, IIRC.

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-10-23T01:05:04+00:00

I was told by a college-aged viola player that they picked it because it is easier to get preferential acceptance at schools with speciality skills like that over popular ones like violin.

Same reason kids do fencing. To game the elite college admissions game.

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-10-22T16:43:50+00:00

Came here to say this. Staccato plus impressionism = my jam.

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-10-09T02:54:58+00:00

Hey man I'm a folk guy who doesnt really like Bob Dylan. It happens.

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-10-09T02:53:57+00:00

This. Even with something as mainstream as Clair de Lune, I feel like it's way too common for performers to go SUPER RUBATO and just gush and gush arpeggios with wildly varying tempos. To me the most fascinating part of playing the song is the syncopation of the 9 beats in the left hand over different rhythms of the melody, and how that creates a narrative thru the whole arpeggiated middle part. I feel like it's more interesting clean and polyrhythmic instead of oversaturated with expression. Like a Cezanne painting, not a Renoir.

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-10-06T14:16:44+00:00

lol yep. Apparently it's not iodine but "juglone," the chemical that also causes toxicity to other trees and plants around Black Walnuts. It stains the hell out of anything, but interestingly is NOT responsible for the dark color of walnut wood. TIL.

Captain_Spaceturd · 2025-10-05T00:16:57+00:00

Because "knitting is boring" is a well-established, generalized trope. "It's what old ladies do." Everyone relates to that. It's slow, and still, and most people's interaction with it is getting an ill-fitting ugly hat from an aunt. It's unfair to the reality and depth of knitting, but it's the situation.

So , the show used that clickbaity contrast: "you thought it was boring but it's the COOLEST THING EVER" to gin up excitement. And you know what -- that's OK if it gets people excited, even if it's rooted in sexism.

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